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ANNUAL REPORT.
To the Board of Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
An Act to amend the Metropolis Local Management
Act, was passed during this year (1862), by which the duties of
the Sanitary Department have been considerably modified and
increased. By the 43rd Clause, the Vestry are not bound to
print any other Report of the Medical Officer of Health, than
an annual one, which is to be appended to the Annual Report
of the Board, to be made in the month of June in each year.
By Clause 91, any person breeding, keeping, or feeding swine in
any locality or premises which may be unfit for these purposes,
or which may create a nuisance, shall be liable to a penalty of
forty shillings, and to a further penalty of 10s. a day during the
time he shall so offend after notice from the Board to discontinue
the same, and a further penalty of 10s. a day if he disobey
the order of a Magistrate prohibiting the using of the place for
either of the above named purposes. By the 93rd Section, no
person can use any place for slaughtering cattle, or keeping